Nottingham Forest footballer Jamaal Lascelles tweets "all charges have been dropped" over assault case

Nottingham Forest footballer Jamaal Lascelles has tweeted to say he has been cleared of all charges.

The England under-21 player, who lives in Oakwood, appear in court over charges in a nightclub in Derby.

Lascelles was charged with assaulting a man, occasioning actual bodily harm, in Lola Lo, in Victoria Street, on April 23. A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said: "We have advised all concerned parties that the CPS is discontinuing the prosecution of Jamaal Lascelles, who had been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 23 April 2014. "Following an in-depth review and careful analysis of the evidence we have taken the decision to discontinue the case. Once we had received and viewed CCTV evidence first-hand, it became apparent that this did not show that the defendant had been responsible for the injuries sustained by the victim. It was therefore deemed that there was no longer a realistic prospect of a conviction, and so the case was stopped."

After being wrongly accused and charged with assault, I can now happily say all charges have been dropped and my name has been cleared

— Jamaal Lascelles (@Lascelles16) February 22, 2015

Lascelles is currently on loan at Forest from Newcastle United until the end of the season.